Re: Quick poll

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Stuart Longland wrote:

> Another way: Refresh on a regular basis, this could work in a
> frames-based interface, where you have a very small, fast-loading page
> which is blank except for some javascript.  The javascript would load
> the other pages if a change was to occurr.

That's the way yahoo works through HTTP Proxies.  Every 30 seconds, a 
ping packet is sent to the server just so that it can return any queued 
packets as a response to this packet.

Philip

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